I'm a life-long Catholic and have always attended what is now referred to as the extraordinary rite of Mass (also called "Traditional Latin Mass" or "1962 Liturgy"). I don't speak Latin but can read it (though I'm a bit rusty, especially with the vocabulary which isn't common in the liturgy). After becoming lukewarm-to-cold in the practice of my Faith I had a re-awakening since my late 20s and have learned much more in the last ten years than in my first twenty.

I'm also a computer programmer and created the website www.AudioSancto.org in order to disseminate the very excellent sermons of a handful of priests.

How does Christ define a Christian?Oh don't go there! LOL For years, at the Easter Vigil when the quotation of St. Augustine's O felix culpa was read in the liturgy I would mentally add "I suppose..." as I think it would have been better if we had no need of a Redeemer. Since then I've heard the commentary that by Christ taking on flesh, our human nature has been ennobled beyond that even of the Angels, and it's for this reason it's a "happy fault" which has caused God to, in a way, "divinize" humanity by taking on our nature.

What specific foods and drinks are forbidden by the LDS (Mormon) Church?So if it's more correct to edit out caffeine, then why are coffee and tea banned? If I understand correctly that the underlying principle is that you're not to take anything that clouds the ability of the mind then what is it about coffee and tea that is mind altering? I ask both out of comparative-religious curiosity and because I get the impression there might be some "good" coffee and tea that heretofore I've not known about. :-)

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What symbols are unique to the various denominations?Okay, it makes sense that the Chi Rho isn't only Catholic: it's a symbol that goes back to antiquity as those are the first two letters of "Christ" in Greek. I am accustomed to seeing that as a symbol referring to a Catholic priest. The IHS monogram was invented with advent of the Society of the Holy Name whose aim was to combat blasphemy... I thought that was post-reformation but maybe it wasn't... or maybe it was a crossover symbol?

Why do adherents to the priesthood of all believers still have organized congregations?@Peter: that might be the case, but it's a common share in the priesthood of Christ which isn't the same as Holy Orders which sets a man apart from the Faithful in order to offer sacrifice and confect the Sacraments on their behalf. I'm not asserting you don't know this, just stating it for non-Catholics who might not get the "common Priesthood" thing as understood in Catholic teaching.

What is the hope in Roman Catholicism?I would have posted a summarized version of Aquinas or Augustine for this question but since Peter Turner went with the most recent encyclical on this topic I decided to go the less formal route with my answer. To say that A LOT has been written on this topic by Catholic authors is a significant understatement!

What symbols are unique to the various denominations?I meant to make this a community wiki question as there isn't, by definition, a single answer yet there can be lots of very good ones... but I don't seem to have the ability to do that. Do I need a higher rep score? Can an admin make the change?